Genealogy Journey's Podcast #36: Radios and Ancestors

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What are your memories of the radio? Did your family have favorite radio shows? Did you listen to music on a transistor radio? What type of radio did your grandparents have? Join us as we discuss radios and your ancestors.

Resources

Definitions
https://www.collinsdictionary.com/us/dictionary/english/radio-set http://www.arcsandsparks.com/aboutcrystalradios.html https://www.quora.com/What-is-the-difference-between-longwave-versus-shortwave-radio

Media information (some census data) http://www.radiostratosphere.com/zsite/behind-the-dial/radio-in-1930.html https://www.census.gov/history/www/homepage_archive/2015/march_2015.html https://www.census.gov/library/photos/radio-in-the-1930s.html https://www.archives.gov/publications/prologue/2002/summer/1930-census-perspective.html
https://www.archives.gov/research/census/resources.html https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_Age_of_Radio

History of radio 
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_radio http://www3.northern.edu/wild/th100/radio.htm http://www.psu.edu/dept/inart10_110/inart10/radio.html

Historical radio broadcasts and old time radio shows and commercials http://www.otr.com/news.html 
http://listverse.com/2007/07/19/top-10-historic-radio-broadcasts/
 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_old-time_radio_programs https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Ford_Sunday_Evening_Hour https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Jack_Benny_Program https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edgar_Bergen https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cavalcade_of_America https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Godfrey%27s_Talent_Scouts https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_Valley_Days_(radio_program) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_old-time_radio_programs https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:1930s_American_radio_programs https://govbooktalk.gpo.gov/2010/04/19/just-for-fun-aunt-sammy%E2%80%99s-radio-recipes/

https://www.otrcat.com/p/cooking-in-old-time-radio https://www.otrcat.com/p/betty-crocker https://www.eater.com/2015/7/15/8962823/food-radio-evan-kleiman-heritage-radio
http://xroads.virginia.edu/~drbr/soaps.pdf (Rouse article) https://www.otrcat.com/soap-operas-during-the-golden-age-of-radio http://www.internationalbulletin.org/issues/2013-01/2013-01-017-rogers.html http://worldcat.org/identities/lccn-n85244115/ 
http://www.oldradioworld.com/ 
https://www.old-time.com/commercials/

Transistor radios 
http://www.smithsonianmag.com/smithsonian-institution/the-transistor-radio-launches-the-portable-electronic-age-110761753/

Sports on radio 
https://beonair.com/history-of-sports-broadcasting/ https://www.loc.gov/item/prn-11-046/library-acquires-historic-radio-tv-sports-recordings/2011-03-09/ http://www.americansportscastersonline.com/radiohistory.html

Marshall McLuhan, explained
http://enculturation.net/teaching-mcluhan

TV shows & Personalities 
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Conrad https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gunsmoke

--Jean Wilcox Hibben